Bankstown and Mingara dominate 2019 Winter Awards

4 May 2020

Bankstown and Mingara dominate 2019 Winter Awards

With the cancellation of the 2020 Athletics NSW awards, over the next month we will announce the winners on the website and in social media.

CLUB WINTER AWARDS

Bankstown Athletics club have dominated the Athletics NSW winter program for nearly a decade and in 2019 won their ninth consecutive Winter Trophy. Bankstown scored 1492 points comfortably ahead of Sydney Striders with 1080 points and Mingara - 9793 points.

The honours over the seven scoring events were split by the leading three clubs. Sydney Striders dominated the road events in Sydney (Sydney 10 and Sydney Half), while at ‘home’ Mingara won the road relays. Bankstown took the honours in the St George Classic, XC relays, and the two individual cross countries.

2019 Winter Premiership winning clubs were:

Girls U12 – Bankstown 54 pts

Boys U12 - Bankstown 59 pts

Girls U14 – Sydney Striders 95 pts

Boys U14 – Kembla Joggers 58 pts

Girls U16 – Sydney Striders 118 pts

Boys U16 – Randwick Botany 68 pts

Girls U18 – Sydney Striders 85 pts

Boys U18 – Kembla Joggers 100 points

Girls U20 – equal Kembla Joggers/Hills 25 pts

Boys U20 – equal Mingara/Run Crew 45 pts

Men Open – Sydney Uni 137 pts

Women Open – Sydney Uni 105 pts

Men 30-39 – Athletics East 125 pts

Women 30-39 – Athletics East 95 pts

Men 40-49 – Athletics East 138 pts

Women 40-49 – Bankstown 86 pts

Men 50-59 – St George 138 pts

Women 50-59 – Bankstown 75 pts

Men 60-69 – Hills 145 pts

Women 60-69 – Bankstown 143 pts

Men 70-79 – Bankstown 106 pts

Bankstown 6 titles, Athletics East & Sydney Striders 3

INDIVIDUAL WINTER AWARD WINNERS

There were four winners in the individual winter awards. Ed Goddard (UTN) and Belinda Martin (ILL) won the distance running awards, while training partners Elaine Wang (SYU) and Dylan Richardson (MIN) have claimed the winter walks crowns.

Goddard claimed his third consecutive title with two wins and a second from three starts scoring 39 points. He comfortably defeated Harrison Wade (SYU) 33 points and Ben St Lawrence (RCR) 32 points.

Belinda Martin (ILL) was a comfortable winner of the women’s title with 47 points from Sarah Marvin (SYU) 27 points and Paige Penrose (KEJ) 18 points. Martin scored in five of the seven events, claiming her third title in 21 years, extraordinarily her first in 2000 and second in 2014.

Training partners Carl Gibbons and Dylan Richardson were in an early battled for the men’s distance walker title of the year in the first two rounds, but Richardson claimed the title on his third round win at the Long Walks Championship. Richardson scored 42 points, with Gibbons second with 29 points. Nepean’s Travis Barendregt was third with 24 points.

It was a winning double for Frank Overton’s squad with Elaine Wang (SYU) a comfortable winner in the women’s with 28 points, ahead of former international Anne Weeks (SUT) 23 points and Amanda Barendregt (NEP) 24 points.

David Tarbotton for Athletics NSW

Image: UTS Norths’ Ed Goddard winner of the NSW Distance runner of the year